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M. RAUGHTIGAN.

CLOTHES LINE PROP.

No. 344,402. Patented June 29, 1886.

MICHAEL RAUGHTIGAN, OF NORWVICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE' HALF TO FRANK C. TURNER, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-LINE PROP.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 3HA02, dated June 29, 1886.

Application filed April 13, 1885. Serial No. 1fl,02l. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL RAUGHTI- GAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Line Props, which improvement is fully set forth and described in the following specification, reference bcinghad to the accompanying 1o drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View of my improved form of prop as it appears when in use; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the upper end of said prop, showing the means provided to I5 hold the same in engagement with the clothesline, and also showing a means for strengthening said prop.

Thisinvention relates to that class of devices used commonly for elevating and holding clothes lines or wires, my immediate object being to provide ata moderate cost a prop which, by the peculiar construction ofits up per end, is held in engagement with the clothes-line under all ordinary conditions.

The letter A represents the rod or pole of my device, preferably sharpened or spiked at its lower end and of sufficient length to raise the line to the desired height. This rod A may be round, as shown, or may be rectangu- 0 lar or of any other convenient shape. Near the upper end of said rod I have made a transverse cut, preferably of diamond shape, as shown at C, and have cut through one of the side walls adjacent to said diamond shaped cut, as at E. To strengthen the rod A 5 on either side of said cut-away portion I have provided rivets a (1., which, passing through said rod, prevent all tendency to split. XVhcn in use, the openingE is slipped over the clothes-line, as in Fig. 1., and as said rod is eleval ed the line assumes the position shown at c, Fig. 2. Should the line he raised by high winds or other causes, instead of leaving the prop, said line slips upward into the position shown at c, Fig. 2, where it remains until again lowered to its first position at c, the movement of the line being usually quick enough to carry it past the opening E. It will thus be seen that the articles of clothing attached to the line are kept from accidental contaet with the ground, and that my improved prop when onccplaccd in position does not need the constant watching and adjusting required by the ordinary form of notched prop.

Having thus described my invention, I claim As a new article of manufacture, a clothesline prop provided near its upper end with a transverse slot of diamond or approximately diamond shape, and having the wall adjacent to one of the side angles of said transverse slot cut through, substantially as described, and for the object set forth.

MICHAEL RAUGHTIGAN.

\Vitncsses:

TYLER J. HOWARD, FRANK H. A main. 

